§ 87.005.Warning Notice

The notice requirement, and it is a double obligation.

A farm animal professional or a farm owner or lessee shall post and maintain a sign containing the prescribed warning if they manage or control a farm, stable, corral, or arena where they conduct a farm animal activity.

And they shall include the warning in every written contract entered into with a participant — including an employee or independent contractor — for professional services, instruction, or the rental of equipment, tack, or a farm animal.

The contract obligation reaches employment contracts, which follows from the 2021 amendments bringing employees within the chapter as participants.

The prescribed warning begins WARNING and states that UNDER TEXAS LAW (CHAPTER 87, CIVIL PRACTICE AND REMEDIES CODE), A FARM ANIMAL PROFESSIONAL OR FARM OWNER OR LESSEE IS NOT LIABLE FOR AN INJURY TO OR THE DEATH OF A PARTICIPANT IN FARM ANIMAL ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING AN EMPLOYEE, resulting from the inherent risks of those activities.

Subsections (d), (e), and (f) impose the parallel obligations on livestock show sponsors, with their own prescribed wording, requiring a sign at a stable, barn, corral, or arena and inclusion in every written contract with a show participant. The warning must be clearly readable.

Note the difference from the 75-series chapters, where posting the sign is what earns the protection. Here the limitation is stated in its own section without a posting condition, and this section imposes the notice as a separate duty.